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Raspberry Pi Wins UK's Top Engineering Award (bbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the moving-forward dept.

An anonymous reader shares a BBC report: The team behind the device was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering's MacRobert Prize at a ceremony in London last night. The tiny computer launched in 2012. Its designers hoped to introduce children to coding and had modest ambitions. They beat two other finalists, cyber-security company Darktrace and radiotherapy pioneers Vision RT, to win the prize. Previous winners of the innovation award, which has been run since 1969, include the creators of the CT (computerised tomography) scanner; the designers of the Severn Bridge; and the team at Microsoft in Cambridge that developed the Kinect motion sensor.

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  1. They are jealous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Europe is jealous of our American know-how, freedom and democracy and so fine us and withhold awards and respect.

    If they hate our freedom so much why dont they invent their own system and stop the criticism and whining.

    1. Re:They are jealous by unimacs · · Score: 2

      Are the British Isles moving because of Brexit? ;-)

      Pretty sure the UK will still be part of Europe whether they're in the European Union or not.

      Anyway I just received my 2nd Pi Zero W (built in wifi) this week. The first one was faulty. It could only see Access Points that were very close. Apparently it's not been an isolated problem. The 2nd one works great and the range is pretty impressive considering the lack of an external antenna. Incredibly versatile, fun, and inexpensive device. So congratulations to them.

  2. Well deserved- by WolfgangVL · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's pretty great when a platform comes along and snares giant subsets of people across multiple disciplines.

    The Pi has earned its place in pop culture, industry, creativity, criminal and business enterprise, education... the list goes on and on.

    I've personally introduced a handful of very young people to the pi as both a robotics, and IoT platform, and watched them sprout from typical minecraft zombie, to budding bot-and-automation-expert in training.

    And that price point? Pretty Amazing.

    Kudos to the Raspberry Pie Foundation, they really are changing the world.

    I just wish shipping and availability was not such an issue, but it's fine 80% of the time, and suppliers always make it right.... with time.

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